Category: News Flash

CareerCast.com put out its 28th annual “Jobs Rated” report, rating jobs on environment, income, outlook and 11 stress factors. Of the top ten best jobs, four are math-related. Of the top ten worst jobs, four are media-related. If your industry is under siege, should you stay the course or look elsewhere?

The big annual Berkshire Hathaway gabfest shareholder meeting is on this weekend and as ever Warren Buffett is telling it like it is. You’re that old, that famous and that rich and you can tell people the truth instead of having to soft soap them. And this year in response […]

UnitedHealth Group is so far alone in its exit from several Obamacare exchanges. Centene, Anthem and other Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans are staying in the business of providing such coverage and looking at ways to expand.

In death, John du Pont may havefinallygotten his wish, to be synonymous with American wrestling. But not for the reason he’d always hoped, when he started theFoxcatcher training facilityon his family’s sprawling, 800-acre estatein suburban Philadelphia, in 1986. The story will befamiliar to anyone who saw the 2014 feature filmFoxcatcher, starring […]

As a guy who has gone through a divorce, I always feel a special need to help those who are about to go through that process or who have gone through it and are in the process of rebuilding. I joke that prior to my divorce, I was on track […]

Multinational companies can have thousands of Tier 1 suppliers, and in the extended multi-tier supply chain it could be hundreds to thousands of upstream suppliers. Clearly solutions are needed to allow companies to cost effectively monitor their extended supply chain to make sure they are not sourcing from companies relying on slave labor.

The Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge has a huge challenge – it needs to follow up one of the South Korean company’s most innovative handsets not just of 2015, but perhaps of the last few years. How do you follow up the Galaxy S6 Edge? That’s the challenge the Galaxy S7 Edge faces. Has it succeeded?

The IraSohn Investing Conference is this week in New York. At this conference the heavyweights of the investing world givetheir money, their time and some of their best investment ideas to raise money for pediatric cancer. The conference has raised more than $50 million since 1995. It was at Sohn in […]

Drs Davies, Zalloum, Eggener, Hussein The sun sets slowly in the West Bank City of Hebron. The fading light is embraced by the Jerusalem stone energizing its golden hue. Teenage shepherds steer goats around the hospital entrance. The air is redolent with zatar and cigarettes. The call to prayer echoes above […]

We end our lessons learned series (co-authored by me and Mike Willee) with our favorite topic, intellectual property (IP). Many entrepreneurs fail to recognize the importance of IP—let alone the value of an IP protection plan in the earliest stages of their businesses. Building a brand, creating a minimum viable […]

In a surprise ruling on Friday from the bench in the climate case brought by 21 children against the State of Washington’s Department of Ecology, WA State King County Superior Court Judge Hollis Hill ordered the Department of Ecology to promulgate a carbon emissions reduction rule by the end of 2016 and make recommendations to the state legislature on science-based greenhouse gas reductions in the 2017 legislative session. Judge Hill also ordered the Department of Ecology to consult with the young plaintiffs in advance of that recommendation.

My own personal preference would be for Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton: but that’s something driven by emotion rather than careful consideration of the issues. And what we’re about here is the consideration of exactly those issues, the economics of public policy. At which point Bernie becomes very much less […]

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) said he would “absolutely” investigate a BuzzFeed News report that claimed President Donald Trump instructed his lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a proposed Trump Tower project in Russia. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s office has disputed the BuzzFeed report. Partial […]

In a profanity laced exchange with a pro-life activist captured by Breitbart News on Saturday, a teenage attendee of far-left Women’s March in Washington, D.C. was seen boasting about the number of abortions she had. Source: Breitbart News

National pro-life leaders say they are celebrating the “most pro-life Senate in American history” and the “reshaping of the federal judiciary,” even as House Democrats appear bent on expanding abortion in America. Source: Breitbart News

The mainstream media have falsely accused a group of Catholic students sporting MAGA hats at the March for Life of mocking and harassing a Native American man in an egregious example of fake news. Source: Breitbart News

Comedian and far-left activist Kathy Griffin called for doxxing and publicly shaming the high school students at Friday’s March for Life who were accused of mocking a Native American man. Source: Breitbart News

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said both Democrats and some Republicans “recognize” they cannot negotiate with President Donald Trump about immigration until the government is reopened because that would be rewarding “hostage taking.” Warner said, “Let me first of all step back and say let’s make sure we all know what’s […]

A new study published in the journal Nature Communications has revealed an as-yet-unseen consequence of climate change, wherein the energy of ocean waves have been increasing around the world caused by widespread ocean warming, which could potentially create further repercussions from coastal change and flooding, and the larger threat of sea level rise Source: CleanTechnica